Sentence examples for interpretation of legislative from inspiring English sources

Archbishop Herranz, who is the president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, said that the American church's large financial settlements with sexual abuse victims were "unwarranted".

These rules are 'institutions' and can been categorised as either 'rules on papers' which refer to the literal interpretation of legislative rules about what actions can be enacted, or 'rules in use' which refer to how people will interpret the written rules and how they combine with social norms (Young 2002).

We will leave the details of term definition, proper models of risk compliance, and interpretation of legislative intention to federal bureaucracies staffed by humans no more prepared to manage or comprehend this complexity than the financial institutions.

Without offering his own interpretation of the legislative history, Mr. Justice WHITE now views that history as replete with 'ambiguities, contradictions, and uncertainties.' Post, at 669.

The dispute arose out of the interpretation of a legislative act, Title X of the Public Health Service Act, which enables the government to fund family-planning clinics, such as Planned Parenthood.

Treasury officials, working with Reid's office, continued yesterday to search for an administrative resolution with Menendez that would ensure a narrow interpretation of the legislative language in order to prevent gaping loopholes from developing.

This note analyzes and inquires into the ramifications of the court's rationale, which was based on a functional approach to the concept of insurance and an interpretation of the legislative history.

"It's wholly inaccurate to characterize an informal interpretation of proposed legislative language as misleading," Rodenbush said.

Given existing norms of interpretation, the creation of legislative history effectively permits agents of Congress to resolve ambiguities of Congress's own making.

The standard that governs whether particular interpretive or explanatory commentary is binding is the one that applies to an agency's interpretation of its own legislative rule: Provided it does not violate the Constitution or a federal statute, such an interpretation must be given controlling weight unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation it interprets.

Any such attack on the judicial function would disrupt state government by crippling the process of legislative interpretation at the time it is needed most.